Eucalyptus Globulus

The gum-tree is a native of Australia and is transplanted to marshy districts in

mild climates on account of its capability of absorbing water and its alleged power of destroying

malarial poisons. It has been familiarised to everybody during the influenza epidemic as a

prophylactic and disinfectant. The provings show that it causes most of the ordinary influenzal

symptoms. It is therefore homceopathic to the disorder. It produces coryza, headache of a dull,

congestive character, sore-throat, indigestion, with excessive development of fetid gas, and fever.

Slow digestion is the characteristic. The fever may be of the relapsing or intermittent type. It has

• ▸also proved useful in convalescence from intermittents.
• ▸It produces odorous sweat.
• ▸C.
• ▸E.
• ▸Fischer

has cured with it many cases of dysentery. Certain vascular conditions come within its sphere: a

distinct beating in the stomach region, accompanying a sense of goneness; one prover referred

this to the abdominal aorta. Vascular tumours of the female urethra have been cured by it; also

glandular enlargements and nodular swellings over joints. It has cured a tumour, the size of a

filbert, with stabbing pains below left nipple. Eucal. has been largely used for bronchitis and

• ▸bronchial asthma.
• ▸Dr.
• ▸Arthur Dalzell (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxv.
• ▸106) relates two striking cases of bronchial

asthma promptly relieved with five-drop doses of Oil of Eucalyptus given in a tablespoonful of

water. The dose was given last thing at night. It also relieved the dyspncea in a case of mitral

insufficiency. Burning pains and sensations predominate; pricking, stabbing, sharp aching are

• ▸common.
• ▸Periodicity is marked.
• ▸Most pains occur at night.
• ▸It has an intoxicating effect and

produces desire for exercise.

Exhilaration, desire to move about, feeling of increased buoyancy and

strength —Intoxication followed by depression.

• ▸Exhilaration.
• ▸Desire for exercise.
• ▸Dull congestive headache.
• ▸Coryza; sore throat.
• ▸Eyes smart and burn.

Full feeling in head; congestive headache; in plethoric subjects, followed by

fever.—Headache in anzemic persons; relieves pain and causes sleep.

Stuffed-up sensation; thin, watery coryza; nose does not stop running; tightness across bridge. Chronic catarrhal, purulent and fetid discharge. Ethmoid and frontal sinus involved.

Stiffness of nose; tightness across bridge as if profuse epistaxis would come

on.—Stuffed-up sensation.—Coryza: thin, watery; chronic catarrh, purulent and fetid.

Relaxed aphthous condition.—Excessive secretion of saliva.—Slightly burning taste

extending into throat and cesophagus with thirst.

Burning in throat; feeling of fulness and soreness on swallowing.—Constant

sensation of phlegm in throat, with expectoration of slightly thick white frothy mucus, not

profuse.

• ▸Relaxed, aphthous condition of mouth and throat.
• ▸Excessive secretion of saliva.
• ▸Burns, feels full.
• ▸Constant sensation of phlegm in throat.
• ▸Enlarged, ulcerated tonsils and inflamed throat (Use tincture locally).

• ▸Slow digestion.
• ▸Much fetid gas.
• ▸Beating and goneness with pulsation in epigastric arteries.
• ▸Spleen hard and contracted.
• ▸Pain in epigastrium and upper abdomen ameliorated by food.
• ▸Malignant disease of stomach with vomiting of blood and sour fluid.

Increased appetite; tormenting thirst—Burning, strong-smelling

eructations.—Burning in stomach.—Fulness, pressure, and weight, as if he had eaten too

much.—Faintness and goneness; with a distinct sensation of beating synchronous with the pulse

(abdominal aorta).—Slow digestion; eructations and bloating.—Difficult and painful

digestion.—Spleen becomes hard, resistent, contracted.

• ▸Acute diarrhoea.
• ▸Aching pains in bowels with feeling of impending diarrhoea.
• ▸Dysentery, with rectal heat; tenesmus; haemorrhage.
• ▸Diarrhoea; stools thin, watery, preceded by sharp pains.
• ▸Typhoid diarrhoea.

Burning in epigastrium and umbilical regions.—Uncomfortable, uneasy feeling

in umbilical region extending through bowels; skirmishing, aching pains in upper portions of

bowels; sensation as if he would have diarrhoea—Sharp aching in hypogastrium after

dinner.—Gastro-intestinal derangements with sleeplessness and restlessness.—Condition of

mucous membrane favouring worms.—Flatulent distension.

Sharp aching in lower bowels; thin, watery yellow diarrhoea on rising in

morning.—Chronic diarrhoea, mucous and bloody.—Dysentery, with heat in rectum, tenesmus,

discharge of mucus, great prostration; hemorrhages.—Typhoid diarrhcea.—Fetor of stools and

flatus.

(Chronic desquamative nephritis; granular kidney; pyelonephritis;

• ▸hydronephrosis.
• ▸).
• ▸—Catarrh of bladder; sensation as if it had lost its expulsive force.
• ▸-—Burning and

tenesmus on urinating —Spasmodic stricture.—Diuresis; incontinence; increased urea.—Urine

smells of violets.

• ▸Acute nephritis complicating influenza.
• ▸Haematuria.
• ▸Suppurative inflammation of kidneys.
• ▸Urine contains pus and is deficient in urea.
• ▸Bladder feels loss of expulsive force.
• ▸Burning and tenesmus; catarrh of bladder; diuresis; urethral caruncle.
• ▸Spasmodic stricture; gonorrhoea.

Leucorrhoea, acrid, fetid. Ulcer around orifice of urethra.

Vascular tumours of urethra.—Ulcer round orifice of

urethra.—Leucorrheea of acrid, fetid mucus.—Swellings in different parts of body; one below

nipple in r. side, size of filbert, with stabbing, darting pains.

• ▸Asthma, with great dyspnoea and palpitation.
• ▸Moist asthma.
• ▸Expectoration white, thick mucus.
• ▸Bronchitis in the aged.
• ▸Bronchorrhoea (Bals. Peru).
• ▸Profuse expectoration of offensive muco-pus.
• ▸Irritative cough.
• ▸Whooping-cough in rachitic children.
• ▸Fetid form of bronchitis, bronchial dilatation and emphysema.

Bronchitis in old and feeble persons.—Bronchorrhcea.—Breathing

quickened.—Asthma in debilitated, anaemic subjects, with terrible dyspnoea, the heart

sympathising strongly.—Moist asthma in bronchitic subjects; it relieves cough and aids in

expulsion of thick mucus.—Expectoration: white, thick, frothy mucus.

Painful palpitation —Palpitation of heart—Sudden flushing of face with much

flatulence in women at climacteric.—Strong beating of abdominal aorta.—Aneurisms pressing on

vagus nerve.

• ▸Rheumatic pains; worse at night, walking or carrying anything.
• ▸Stiff, weary sensation.
• ▸Pricking sensation, followed by painful aching.
• ▸Nodular swellings over metacarpal and metatarsal joints.

Glandular enlargements and nodular swelling over joints. Foul and indolent ulcers. Herpetic eruptions.

Eruptions of an herpetic character, glandular enlargement, and development of foul

and indolent ulcers.

• ▸Elevation of temperature.
• ▸Continued and typhoid fevers.
• ▸Scarlet fever (protective and curative).
• ▸Discharges show a tendency to foulness, high temperature, accelerated but not strong pulse.
• ▸Use the tincture.

• ▸Aneurism.
• ▸Aortitis.
• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Bladder, affections of.
• ▸Bronchitis.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Dysentery.

• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Dysuria.
• ▸Fistulas.
• ▸Gonorrhoea.
• ▸Gout.
• ▸Intermittent fever.
• ▸Kidney, diseases of.
• ▸Quinine

• ▸cachexia.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Spleen, affections of.
• ▸Strychnine poisoning.
• ▸Syphilis.
• ▸Tumours.
• ▸Typhoid.

• ▸Urethra, stricture of.
• ▸Urethral caruncle.
• ▸Varicose ulcers.
• ▸Worms.

• ▸It compares with Ant.
• ▸crud.
• ▸in action on mucous membranes; Ant.
• ▸t.
• ▸in bronchial

• ▸asthma and bronchorrhcea; Arsen.
• ▸and Chi.
• ▸in intermittents.
• ▸Silica in fistulous ulcers; Tereb.
• ▸in

• ▸urinary symptoms.
• ▸/t follows: Ars.
• ▸in relapsing fevers.
• ▸A cup of coffee relieves the effects.

Phytolacca removed tumour of right breast. Compare also the "Red Gum," Angophora

lanceolata. It is said to be an antidote to Strychnine poisoning. (Monfrida Musmecin found a

decoction of Eucalyptus leaves formed with a solution of a strychnine salt a flocculent precipitate

devoid of bitter taste. Animals dosed with the two drugs together survived when the quantity of

strychnine was such that given alone it would have been lethal. Even when the Eucalyptus

decoction was given after strychnine convulsions had developed the symptoms became greatly

modified. ).

Compare: Oil of Eucalyptus.--(Produces remarkable bodily exhaustion, no desire for any motion, unable to do any real mental work, study, etc. The volatile oil possesses, in common with other terpenes, the property of converting water, in presence of air and sunlight, into hydrogen peroxide, or to convert oxygen into ozone, which is the explanation usually given of its deodorizing and antiseptic properties (Merrel). Locally, in catarrhal affections, especially when of a suppurating or putrid nature). Eucalyptus tereticoris (menstrual cough and prostration). Eucalyptol (depresses temperature of healthy body more than Quinine; acts on kidneys like Terebinth); Anacard; Hydrast; Kali sulph. Eucalyptus neutralizes ill effects of Strychnin.

Angophora-Red Gum--(dysentery, pains, tenesmus; better lying flat on face; obstinate constipation). Eucalyptus rostrata; Kino.

Tincture in one to 20 drop doses, and lower potencies. Also Oil of Eucalyptus in five-drop doses.

Many nodular swellings over metarcarpal and metatarsal joints.—In both upper and

lower extremities pricking sensations were first noticed, followed by a painful aching in both

arms and legs, together with a sense of fulness in the veins, and a stiff, weary sensation as if too

weary to move.